It is all obvious or trivial except…

Do snails eat birdshit?

In one of my little wanders around the garden as an interlude I spotted a snail having a go ad some bird shit.

So, do they eat it? I’m not going to spoil speculation by trying to look it up, obviously. And given that it’s a snail I can’t quite insist that it found it to be fingerlickin’ good.

But I don’t know what snails do eat – something about their mouth being in their stomach or something – and thus whether bird poo would be on the menu. For all I know soon to be guano is sufficiently acerbic to melt them.

One summer we ate lots of snails from the garden. You confine them in a bucket for a few days and supply them with lettuce leaves and frequent changes of water so that any nasty stuff has passed through them and been chucked away. They taste just like French snails i.e. of garlic and rubber.